I’ve periodically put up gun control posters that have been very popular (here, here, here, here, and here). I’ve also posted amusing images of t-shirts and bumper stickers on gun control (here, here, and here). And I’ve posted three different videos on gun control (here, here, and here). If you liked those posts, you’ll really like this powerpoint presentation.

Now let’s look at data from the Federal Reserve, showing the amount of “excess reserves” that banks are holding at the Fed. This is money that is available for loans, but financial institutions apparently don’t see many profitable opportunities to put that money to work. This is perhaps the biggest indictment of Obamanomics since banks exist to make money issuing loans.

Just as I warned in my previous post, there presumably are many factors that are causing banks to keep more reserves than necessary with the Fed. Having been burned during the financial crisis, banks probably would be more cautious, even if Obama was pursuing good policy. Nonetheless, it certainly seems like Obamanomics is just as much of a failure as Bushnomics – which makes sense since both mean bigger government and more intervention.